“ A boy enters his horse in a local horse show, and the book follows thepreparation and the show itself, starting with filling out the entries, cleaning tack,preparing horse and rider, the show, and an exciting article in the newspaper afterwards.”

Show Pony

Dutton, New York, 1954, illus Paul Brown, 88 pp.

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Jan and Jay buy a green and neglected three-year old pony and try totrain her to be as good a show pony as their pony Top Honor.

Horse Haven

Dutton, New York, 1955, illus Paul Brown, 93 pp.

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“Jan and Jay ignore their show ponies when aneglected old horse is brought to their farm to recoverfrom an abusive owner, and after they begin to ride thehorse, they find out that he’ll jump a natural fence butrefuses show ring fences.”

Hanover’s Wishing StarDutton, New York, 1956, 124 pp.

Hanover’s Wishing Star is essentially a non-fiction story of a girl getting a horse, illustratedwith photos. “Karen Ann McGuire wants a horse badly, and when she learns that theracehorse Nashua and his stablemates are to be auctioned off, she writes to the bank incharge explaining that if there is any horse that no one else wants to buy, she would like